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Article #79Re: Best C Compiler
From: Kaleb Keithley
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 19:40
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 1990 19:40
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In article <1990Mar19.175316.16898@Octopus.COM> stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) writes:
>I have Turbo C and MSC Both. In trying to determine which one builds the
>tighter code, I compiled MicroEMACS 3.10 (Beta) under MSC. I used the maximum
>optimizations on both. MSC Failed with an internal compiler error. Without
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>optimizations, it compiled and linked, but, alas, Emacs would crash. The
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>Turbo C compiled version works fine. I have been using it as my editor at work
>for over a year. The Turbo C version was also 10K smaller. I don't know if
>MicroEMACS is really a good benchmark, but it's big and is supported by
>a variety of compilers on various platforms.
>
>BTW - I used TC 2.0 and MSC 5.1
>
I can't imagine what you did, I compiled 3.10 with MSC 5.1, no internal errors,
it created an 88102 byte executable that doesn't crash at all. It even uses my
mouse.
kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!mars!kaleb From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Best C Compiler Keywords: Compilers Message-ID: <3130@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 19 Mar 90 19:40:49 GMT References: <1990Mar19.175316.16898@Octopus.COM> Sender: news@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov Reply-To: kaleb@mars.UUCP (Kaleb Keithley) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 22